Prehistoric Archaeology

Where do we find the worlds very first art? When, and why, did people begin experimenting with different materials, forms and colours? Were our onc...

Yorkshire is a testament to the enduring power of stone. From the imposing walls of Skipton Castle to the ruins of Whitby Abbey, the inhabitants of...

The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this centur...

In Home Francis Pryor, author of The Making of the British Landscape, archaeologist and broadcaster, takes us on his lifetime's quest: to discover ...

Oceania was the last region on earth to be permanently inhabited, with the final settlers reaching Aotearoa/New Zealand approximately AD 1300. This...

In 2013, Lee Berger, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, caught wind of a cache of bones in a hard-to-reach underground cave in South Afri...

Humanity's written history stretches back only 5,000 years, a mere blip on the timeline of our existence. If you want to know what it really means ...

A PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEARIn this acclaimed bestseller, an explorer and Neanderthal hunter takes us on a riveting journey of discovery'With the st...

Thinking Hinterlands Spanning 25 years of fieldwork across a 3 sq. km swathe on the west side of Cambridge, this and its companion volume present ...

This volume is an integrated overview and synthesis of available data relating to the Quaternary evolution of the River Trent. It provides detailed...

A Silent Place: Death in Mycenaean Lakonia is the first book-length systematic study of the Late Bronze Age (LBA) burial tradition in south-eastern...

This volume investigates the interaction between the natural environment, market forces and political entities in an ancient Sicilian town and its ...

This edited volume presents a series of reviews, overviews and unpublished archives from several historic expeditions in the Naqada region of Upper...

Ireland's First Settlers tells the story of the archaeology and history of the first continuous phase of Irelands human settlement. It combines cen...

A synthesis of culinary practices of prehistoric Greece based on plant food ingredients In Plant Foods of Greece, Greek archaeologist Soultana Mari...

Based on archaeological research in Colorados Middle Parka high mountain basin initially encountered by Europeans in the early 1800s and occupied f...

Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide surveys the lithic record for the East Mediterranean Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel...

The contribution of Neandertals to the biological and cultural emergence of early modern humans remains highly debated in anthropology. Particularl...

Over recent years, a number of scholars have argued that the human mind underwent a cognitive revolution in the Neolithic. This volume seeks to tes...

Sited at the furthest limits of the Neolithic revolution and standing at the confluence of the two great sea routes of prehistory, Britain and Irel...